JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2017

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[EJ]Eveningポスター発表

セッション記号 P (宇宙惑星科学) » P-PS 惑星科学

[P-PS06] [EJ] あかつき金星周回1.5年とその科学成果

2017年5月20日(土) 17:15 〜 18:30 ポスター会場 (国際展示場 7ホール)

[PPS06-P18] Venus nightside infrared spectroscopic study around the 2.3-μm CO2 atmospheric window using IRTF/SpeX data in Jan-Feb 2017

*Yeon Joo Lee1Hideo Sagawa2Takao M Sato1Toru Kouyama3Javier Peralta1Eliot Young4Emmanuel Marcq5Shigeto Watanabe6Masataka Imai7Takeshi Imamura8Takehiko Satoh1Masato Nakamura1 (1.ISAS/JAXA, Japan、2.Kyoto Sangyo Univ., Japan、3.AIST, Japan、4.SwRI, U.S.A.、5.LATMOS, France、6.Hokkaido information Univ., Japan、7.Hokkaido Univ., Japan、8.Tokyo Univ., Japan)

キーワード:Venus, Infrared, Spectroscopy, Ground-based observation

Venus has a 96.5% CO2 atmosphere with 20-km thick H2SO4 clouds at 48-70 km altitudes above surface covering the entire planet. The strong CO2 absorption effectively hinder thermal emission from lower atmosphere to space, and the clouds also contribute the opacity. However, there are well-known atmospheric windows which allow us to detect the emission below the clouds. We observed Venus nightside using such a channel around 2.3 μm. The observation was conducted at IRTF, Hawaii, USA, for 15 days in Jan and Feb 2017. As Venus approaches its inferior conjunction in March 2017, the apparent size of Venus increased from 22” to 38” during our observation period. We used a medium resolution spectrometer (SpeX, R~2500 in the 1.68-4.2 μm range), which has sufficient resolving power to study cloud opacity at 48-55 km, as well as spatial distributions of trace gases such as CO, OCS, H2O, SO2 below the clouds at 30-40 km altitudes above surface. This observation was conducted as a coordinated observation with the Japanese Venus mission, Akatsuki, which monitors atmospheric winds and mesospheric SO2 abundance above the clouds. We will compare the trace gaseous spatial distributions below and above the clouds, and investigate their possible correlation.